Beltway insiders were hardly shocked when Bloomberg News reported that AT&T contributed nearly $1,000,000 to Republican members of Congress who signed a letter supporting its bid to acquire T-Mobile. After all, AT&T has a long history of throwing money around Washington, wining and dining...

Yesterday the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. This is great news for communities of color, who disproportionately rely on wireless service to make phone calls and access the Internet.

The DoJ concluded...

While the U.S. is in the depths of an economic crisis with no end in sight and harder times looming ahead, the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are reviewing a proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. Like many developments in this Great Recession, it has...

Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission gave its blessing to the Comcast-NBC Universal deal, one of the largest media mergers in a generation, and we have one man to thank for it.

When Julius Genachowski took the helm of the FCC in 2009,...

Don't Be Evil.

It was a great slogan for a transformative company that was telling the world that it could make lots of money while still being an honest broker.

But as it turns out, Google may not be different from any other large corporation that cares only about...

Perhaps the greatest freedom in a democracy is freedom of speech. Throughout our nation's history, people have died fighting not only for our right to speak, but for our right to be heard.

The Internet is the greatest communications network ever created because it allows us to speak for ourselves...